Ben Cardin actually said...

"This has been a bipartisan effort to try to evolve the program to meet the current needs."

"we are going to be looking at the existing tools to see whether we cannot make them more effective in carrying out the mission, particularly reaching the traditionally underserved communities, and the..."

"This was very much a bipartisan effort."

"This is, certainly, a critically important subject when we talk about strategic competition with China."